Naomi was born a bold and free spirit who loved to entertain people with stories. From knocking about the outskirts of Melbourne's northern suburbs until the late 1990s to finding herself enrolled at a socially uncomfortable elite private girls' college, she developed some increasingly problematic coping strategies for life's challenges. Determined to outrun these issues, her dalliance as country waitress concluded with further heartbreak. Then, while living it up on Melbourne's iconic Chapel Street and editing her university newspaper, her university degree concluded but her buried accumulative volatility did not.